CEEweb for Biodiversity is a network of non-governmental organizations in the Central and Eastern European region working for 20 years in 20 countries. Our mission is the conservation of biodiversity through the promotion of sustainable development.

Openness

The Openness Project (Operationalisation of Natural Capital and Ecosystem Services) is a partnership between research institutes and Small and Medium Entreprises whose aim is to produce methodologies for integrating natural capital and ecosystem services thinking into decision making regarding land use, water management and urban ecosystems. The project investigates what the concepts of natural capital and ecosystem services bring into EU environmental social and economic policy goals.

Aims of the project are:

“To advance conceptual understanding of ES and NC and provide operational frameworks for application of the concepts in real-world management and decision-making situations

To examine how existing and forthcoming EU regulatory frameworks can enhance or restore the benefits derived from ES and NC using multi-scale scenario approaches

To develop and refine approaches for mapping and modeling the biophysical control of ES that can be used to assess the effectiveness of mechanisms, instruments and best management practices for sustaining ES delivery in the face of multiple uncertain drivers whilst conserving biodiversity

To develop hybrid methodologies that address trade-offs, synergies and conflicting interests and values in the use of ES through a combination of monetary, non-monetary and deliberative methods within multi-criteria and Bayesian approaches to decision support

To apply the concepts and methods developed and refined in the project to concrete, place-based case studies in a range of social-ecological systems with stakeholders and analyse the implications of local, regional and EU level decisions on the ES flows and use in other parts of the world

To translate the results into policy recommendations and integrate the outputs in a Menu of Multi-Scale Solutions and associated datasets that are available for ES users and managers as well as decision-makers

To disseminate the results and to promote and maintain science-policy dialogue on the use of the concepts of ES and NC in sustainable land, water and urban management.”

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